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Post by bob on Aug 5, 2006 8:52:06 GMT 1
Ok (i think you guys know) I am a HUGE Rough Trade festishest. I buy everything that the label releases (well the albums- except for belle and sebastain singles). I also am a fan of the Rough Trade Shops (which is different from the RT label) especially the compilations and heres the latest one: www.roughtrade.com/site/content.lasso?page=roughtrade30thpage_1.htmlcant wait
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Post by bob on Aug 8, 2006 18:40:50 GMT 1
now available for pre order - unfortunately it's going to be released on the 2 october bah!
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Post by bob on Aug 14, 2006 6:16:01 GMT 1
right - the compilation section has been updated. There are links to albums mentioned in the tracklisting plus some other Rough trade 30 merchandise
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Post by bob on Aug 18, 2006 13:13:00 GMT 1
ok some more goodies those who pre -order the album will get a badge and a bookmark and there's also a book being published here's a brief summarry taken from www.bdpworld.com/Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited tells the engrossing story of one of England’s bestloved and most groundbreaking record labels. It is 30 years since the Rough Trade Shop first opened its doors in Notting Hill, London. Disco and soft-rock ruled the airwaves and Geoff Travis set up the company with a group of friends as a communistic, DIY alternative to the increasingly stale ainstream. Over the ensuing years the Rough Trade Shop, Rough Trade Records and Rough Trade Distribution profoundly altered the landscape of modern music. Rough Trade: Labels Unlimited looks back on three fascinating decades of innovation, noise and change, taking in ups and downs, twists and turns and some of the best music ever committed to vinyl. Run with punk's revolutionary zeal, Rough Trade cast its net much wider in its search for musical innovation, from French and Northern Irish punk rock to classic Jamaican dub. The label released many of the most important and enduring records of the 1980s by artists including: The Smiths, Scritti Politti, The Pop Group, The Raincoats, Galaxie 500, Mazzy Star, The Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, Robert Wyatt, The Fall, Arthur Russell, Ivor Cutler and Linton Kwesi Johnson. 20 years after the release of The Queen is Dead, Rough Trade is still very much alive. Having survived various shake-ups and changes in ownership (the label separated from the shop in 1983 although the two organisations remain friendly) Rough Trade Records is today thriving with artists on their current roster including The Strokes, British Sea Power, Antony and the Johnsons and The Arcade Fire. The shop is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a special compilation featuring various Rough Trade tracks selected by customers both famous and longstanding. Rough Trade profiles seminal artists from the label’s roster, and much more, as both the history of Rough Trade, and by proxy the story of British independent music over the last thirty years are engagingly chronicled. Accessibly written by Rob Young (editor at large of The Wire magazine) Rough Trade is visually stunning, filled with archive images, interviews (including a rare one with Geoff Travis), and previously unseen photographs and artefacts. Following on from Warp, Rough Trade is the second in the series Labels Unlimited, surveying record labels whose innovative practices have stamped their identity on musical styles and shaken up the recording industry. Rob Young has played a key role in the development of the internationally respected British music magazine The Wire. He has also contributed to a wide range of publications including The Guardian, Uncut and The Independent On Sunday. He is the author of Warp and edited Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring Of Modern Music.
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Post by mozzer on Aug 19, 2006 10:14:42 GMT 1
bob, do you know where i can get a copy of 'manchester, so much to answer for' compilation please?? was not able to find in the uk, not even play.com!!
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Post by bob on Aug 19, 2006 10:43:30 GMT 1
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Post by mozzer on Aug 19, 2006 10:46:12 GMT 1
yep ... that's the one ... thanks
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Post by bob on Aug 19, 2006 10:46:56 GMT 1
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Post by bob on Aug 29, 2006 9:37:11 GMT 1
well it seems that rough trade publishing (not to be confused with the label or the shops) is releasing a compilation as well to celebrate it's 15 years of bringing lesser known alt rock to england. (there are only two british bands here - at least to my knowledge) another tracklisting to make one (or at least me) drool www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/1116936/-/Product.html?searchstring=sweet+fifteen
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Post by mozzer on Sept 8, 2006 7:11:05 GMT 1
Rough notes on TradeJust when you weren't particularly waiting for a book about Rough Trade, along come two at once. Rob Young's book on the pioneering indie label has just been published. Which means that Paul Cox's, still forthcoming, has been pipped rather cruelly to the promo post. The Guardian has gone overboard promoting Young's book which, at a cursory glance, seems rather coffeetable compared with Cox's (which claims to be "part authorised biography of Geoff Travis" and to model itself on David Cavanagh's exemplary book about Creation). Today's paper contains a reminiscence by Philip Hoare about his days "working" for the label in the early 80s, and the other day the Guardian ran this splendid Jill Furmanovsky photo of a young (and surprisingly good looking) Genesis P Orridge flogging the latest Throbbing Gristle offering to Geoff Travis back in 1978. Since everybody is waxing lyrical about the label, I thought I'd scribble down my loose, oblique associations too. I remember a visit, way back in early 1982, to their legendary Blenheim Crescent warehouse, notoriously scented with brown rice and ganja. I was with my first band, The Happy Family, and we'd recently made a demo with Josef K's Malcolm Ross on guitar. Geoff Travis took the tape into his glass DJ booth and listened to it, then returned to tell us he "didn't think the guitars sounded committed enough". Which was his witty way of saying that he'd heard that Malcolm had joined Orange Juice, and that the guitarist was the best thing we had going for us. I remember the warehouse rocking to "Candyskin" by The Fire Engines while we were there; this was the record that was going to break them through. It didn't. It broke them up instead. My next contact with Rough Trade was in 1988, when Creation was using their art department. By now they'd scored big with The Smiths, and had moved to new premises near King's Cross. I had to go and check the proofs for the "Tender Pervert" sleeve. The building felt haunted by Morrissey, I remember, and you couldn't quite forget all those rankling songs he'd written about Geoff Travis saying he "just hadn't earned it yet, baby". As it happened, the art department at Rough Trade was run by a very pretty blonde girl called Sallie Fellows, who became my girlfriend, leading to a certain amount of after-work drinking with the Rough Trade staff in King's Cross pubs. The affair didn't last long; Sallie met KLF timelord Bill Drummond, married him and had his babies. (She was commemorated on "Hippopotamomus" with a song about masturbating monkeys which she claimed to be too scared to listen to.) Rough Trade also didn't last long: in 1992 it went out of business for several years, stripping down to a distribution hub. Geoff Travis did well as a manager in the 90s, with Pulp and others on his books. He revived Rough Trade as a label, and currently has some big acts signed. He's lost his signature afro and now looks like this. My more recent contacts with Rough Trade are just as a consumer dropping into a series of excellent but short-lived record shops in Paris (Rue de la Roquette) and Tokyo (Cat Street). They've both gone, but the Slam City Skates store in London's Covent Garden is still there, and still a regular point of call for me. Somehow, when I'm in there, I feel like music still has the scale and meaning it had for me when I was in my 20s: small scale, big meaning. imomus.livejournal.com/223214.html
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Post by bob on Sept 8, 2006 9:27:51 GMT 1
Wow thanks Mozzer anything Rough Trade related is worth reading! Incidentally that TG & Travis pic can be found on Souljazz's post punk compilation. In the beginning there was rhythm. Argh that Paul Cox book. I pre ordered it back in 2002! It was supposed to be published in May, the same year!
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Post by sisterhavana on Sept 13, 2006 11:51:01 GMT 1
Re the Rough Trade Publishing "Sweet Fifteen" comp: they are offering a copy in a prize draw, see www.rough-trade.com.
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Post by bob on Sept 13, 2006 15:02:18 GMT 1
Ok entered competition thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by bob on Sept 25, 2006 4:35:18 GMT 1
Ok recieved the compilation ( week earlier wooo!) All I can say is that music-wise it's excelllent (although I have about 10 tracks fro the 30 listed) fave track on cd 1 - boyd rice - Track 1, Side 1 on CD 2 - Stereolab & Nurse with Wound - Stereo headphone Mind
Presentation wise its a beaut as well. It's in the form of a small hardback book with a dust jacket and 60 pages worth of material.
Definitely worth every penny (I didnt get any badges or bookmarks though).
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Post by bob on Nov 1, 2006 7:45:56 GMT 1
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